Jourdan v. Barrett
Supreme Court of Louisiana
A1TEAL FROM TIIE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a petitory action^ by two plaintiffs, to recover from the defendant, to be taken from the sides of his tract of land, thirty-one and thirty-three superficial arpents of land, as parts of back concessions. The plaintiff, Landry, is the front proprietor of six arpents on the river Mississippi, with the depth of forty.
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A1TEAL FROM TIIE COURT OF THE FIRST JUDICIAL DISTRICT. This is a petitory action^ by two plaintiffs, to recover from the defendant, to be taken from the sides of his tract of land, thirty-one and thirty-three superficial arpents of land, as parts of back concessions. The plaintiff, Landry, is the front proprietor of six arpents on the river Mississippi, with the depth of forty. In virtue of the act of congress, of the 15th June, 1832, granting back concessions to front proprietors, he entered one hundred and fifty-four arpents, back of, and in the rear of his front tract, and complains that…
1Opinion of the CourtBullard, J.
The plaintiffs assert title to different portions of land *38possessed bjr the defendant, which they purchased of the United States, in virtue of the acts of congress granting to front proprietors the right of purchasing, public lands back of, and adjacent to their front tracts. The evidence of title which they exhibit, to wit, certificates of purchase, and an apportionment of the lands among conflicting claimants, under the same acts of congress, under the superintendence of 4he surveying department, appears to us sufficient to authorize a judgment in their favor, unless the title of the…
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